Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 

 BULLETIN 205 APRIL, 1918 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SERIES, No. 25 



BEEKEEPING FOR CONNECTICUT 



CONTENTS 



Page 



^ Officers and. Staff of Station , 424 



i Beekeeping for Connecticut 425 

 Hives 427 

 - The' Standard or Langgtroth Hive 427 



i The Super • 428 



The Frame 429 



The Sectional Brood Chamber Hive . . . 429 



Smokers , 43 1 



Veils 431 



Hive-Tool 431 



Comb Foundation 432 



Stocking with Bees 432 



: The Colony 433 



' "Workers j ., 434 



Drones 434 



Races of Bees ~. 434 



Location 43S 



Page 



Swarm Control .' 435 



Comb Honey 436 



Extracted Honey 437 



When to Put on Supers 437 



The Extractor 438 



Care of Extracted Honey 438 



Honey and Its Uses 439 



Honey Plants 439 



Diseases of Bees. . 441 



American Foul Brood 441 



European Foul Brood 442 



How Foul Brood Diseases are Spread . 444 



Treatment \ . , 444 



Disinfection 445 



Apiary Inspection in Connecticut 445 



Publications on Beekeeping 446 



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